Comments on: Saddam Hussein’s execution filmed on mobile camera phone http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NyaZ http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html/comment-page-1#comment-232831 NyaZ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:12:10 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html#comment-232831 Our conscience tells us the moral and immoral things. Do we think people can forgive an accused person? What could be the right and applicable verdict to a criminal? In a legal due process, the truth will prevail and the accused will pay for his illegal acts and crimes done. Bush held a press conference with a member of the Iraqi government, and there was a protest made. An Iraqi journalist decided that he was none too happy with Bush's performance, and set himself on making a statement of protest by throwing his shoes at the President. In America, we'd think a person was nuts for doing this, but in Muslim culture, throwing your shoes at a person is the greatest of insults. The name of the journalist is Muntadhar al-Zeidi, and as he hurled his foot wear he said "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" The statue of Saddam that was toppled a few years ago had numerous shoes thrown at it, if this could give you an inkling of how serious they take the insult. Bush dodged both loafers, and laughed it off as a "sign of a free society," like financial options like payday loans are. The man was promptly subdued and jailed. Many people across the Muslim world praised the man for his actions, as President Bush's image is not a very popular one in the Middle East. The shoes are currently being held as evidence, and the man awaits trial as he could receive up to two years for the offence. Click to read more on <a title="Learn more about how to make money throwing shoes" rev="vote-for" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2008/12/16/need-extra-eash-throw-shoes-at-bush/" rel="nofollow">Payday Loans</a>. Our conscience tells us the moral and immoral things. Do we think people can forgive an accused person? What could be the right and applicable verdict to a criminal? In a legal due process, the truth will prevail and the accused will pay for his illegal acts and crimes done. Bush held a press conference with a member of the Iraqi government, and there was a protest made. An Iraqi journalist decided that he was none too happy with Bush's performance, and set himself on making a statement of protest by throwing his shoes at the President. In America, we'd think a person was nuts for doing this, but in Muslim culture, throwing your shoes at a person is the greatest of insults. The name of the journalist is Muntadhar al-Zeidi, and as he hurled his foot wear he said “This is your farewell kiss, you dog!” The statue of Saddam that was toppled a few years ago had numerous shoes thrown at it, if this could give you an inkling of how serious they take the insult. Bush dodged both loafers, and laughed it off as a “sign of a free society,” like financial options like payday loans are. The man was promptly subdued and jailed. Many people across the Muslim world praised the man for his actions, as President Bush's image is not a very popular one in the Middle East. The shoes are currently being held as evidence, and the man awaits trial as he could receive up to two years for the offence. Click to read more on Payday Loans.

]]> By: Alan http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html/comment-page-1#comment-17844 Alan Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:50:13 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html#comment-17844 Further coverage on the Saddam execution along with unedited video and the Letter from Saddam Hussein to the People of Iraq. http://www.crusade-media.com/news40.html Further coverage on the Saddam execution along with unedited video and the Letter from Saddam Hussein to the People of Iraq.

http://www.crusade-media.com/news40.html

]]> By: Kyle MacRae http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html/comment-page-1#comment-17737 Kyle MacRae Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:29:43 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/01/saddam_husseins_execution_filmed_on_mobile_camera_phone.html#comment-17737 "I also wonder what Scoopt could/would have done with the footage, had they been approached with it exclusively by the owner." Must admit, it crossed my mind too! The 'could' part is easy: we could have licensed this footage and stills taken from it commercially to any global media customer that wanted to use it (gotta love the Associated Press credit here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1980902,00.html). The 'would' is trickier. We always have to judge these issues on a case by case basis, balancing the right and requirement to tell the news against the risks of being used for political advantage, rewarding illegal actions, helping to fund a cause etc. In this particular case, before we made any decisions, we would have had to establish full details of the source. This would not necessarily have been wasy! Without knowing anything of the source, it's impossible to be categorical and I simply don't know whether we would have handled the video or walked away. But ultimately our role, as that of any other news organisation, is to tell the news -- and you do that with whatever means you have to hand, subject to a billion provisos. “I also wonder what Scoopt could/would have done with the footage, had they been approached with it exclusively by the owner.”

Must admit, it crossed my mind too!

The ‘could’ part is easy: we could have licensed this footage and stills taken from it commercially to any global media customer that wanted to use it (gotta love the Associated Press credit here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1980902,00.html).

The ‘would’ is trickier. We always have to judge these issues on a case by case basis, balancing the right and requirement to tell the news against the risks of being used for political advantage, rewarding illegal actions, helping to fund a cause etc. In this particular case, before we made any decisions, we would have had to establish full details of the source. This would not necessarily have been wasy!

Without knowing anything of the source, it’s impossible to be categorical and I simply don’t know whether we would have handled the video or walked away. But ultimately our role, as that of any other news organisation, is to tell the news — and you do that with whatever means you have to hand, subject to a billion provisos.

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